I for one would love a 24-70 F4 VR and 70-200 F4 VR combo with a D700. So it may not be a mistake.

na

28-70 in black, and 28-70in grey. Simple :DDD

Bryan

What I find interesting is that each link goes to a different page if you view the web address. Each page has the exact same info, but there are two separate pages for it. That’s a weird error.

Blog Admin

That was my point – it is a weird error.

Elron

its the same bug thats on many EU nikon sites, has been there for a year or so. Cant believe thay didn’t fix it at this time.

Blog Admin

It has been there for a year? I cannot believe that! I will check the rest of EU sites.

MVK

Elron’s right. It’s an old bug not a rumor or even a glimpse of a rumor. The 70-200 is a best seller to this day. Unlike Canon, Nikon doesn’t pump out a new lens that is perfectly function just for kicks. And just because JTangney thinks he wants a f/4 28-70, doesn’t give Nikon enough reason to risk cannibalizing their incredibly sharp 24-70 f/2.8 that was JUST announced.

Must be a really slow news day to consider this a rumor.

fotomik

The 24-70 is definitely NOT going anywhere, but come on now. The Canon 70-200 2.8L IS USM (which by the way totally creamed the AF-S VR in dpreview’s test!) was intorduced in 2001. The 70-200 2.8 USM was introduced in 1995. Compare to Nikon’s 5 different versions of the same lens over the years. I just can’t see how you can justify that comment.Although I was just yesterday shooting cars with the oldest of the nikon 80-200’s on my D3. Worked just fine. 😀 Who needs a Canon anyway.

BUT the AF-S VR needs an update. 14-24, 24-70 and 70-200, all in Nano Coating Glory? I say bring it on.

My comment was at the fact that Canon has 4 versions at the same time (not 5 separate upgrades to a single lens). Nikon, unlike Canon, has never been big on producing several versions of the same lens. (f/4, f/2.8, f/4 IS, f/2.8 IS.) Which was my point — it doesn’t make sense that they’d produce a 70-200 f/4 right now when there are so many different lenses that haven’t been updated and the 70-200 saw an update in 2003.

I’m also aware of the 70-200 test and in all fairness, I would never say Canon has unsharp or bad glass. I just meant that Canons marketing strategy has historically been much different from Nikons and I don’t see Nikon deviating from that right now.